Implement for perforating and clipping cigars



(No Model.)

A. J. PEAVEY.

IMPLEMENT FOR PERPORATING AND .GLIPPING CIGARS.

Patented Aug. 7, 18-83..

-UNITE STAT S PATENT Orrrcn.

ANDREW J. PEAVEY, OF SOMEBVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPLEMENT'FOR PERFORATING AND CLIPPING CIGARS.-

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters latent No. 282,764, dated August *7, 1883.

Application filed February 26, 1883. (No model.) L

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. PEAVEY, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and y State of Massachusetts, have invented certain one or more openings to receive the tip end of a cigar, and has arranged within it a piercer to pierce a cigar placed in the end of the tube along the length of the cigar, and aknife or othercutting edge or edges to cut or sever the tip of a cigar placed on either of the intermediate openings of the tube, all substantially as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings the present improved implement is illustrated on an enlarged scale and in various forms and shapes, but all having substantially the same construction.

I Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the implement, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal ver tical section of Fig.1; Figs. 3, 4, and 5, crosssections on lines 3 3, 4:41, and 5 5, respectively, 1 of Fig. 2; Fig. 6, part side view and longitudinal section of another form of the implement; Fig. 7, a cross-section of Fig. 6 on line 7 '7; Fig. 8, a perspective View of another form of the implement; Fig. 9, a cross-section of Fig. 8 on line 9 9, and Fig. 10 a perspective view of cutter and piercer of the implement detached.

In the drawings, A represents atube or hollow cylinder. This tube A has an opening, B, at one end, made interiorly of a conical shape and similar to the tip end of a cigar, and between its two ends an opening, a, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 or openings ca, Fig. 9, in the sides of the tube, and each of suitable shape for the tip end of a cigar, if placed therein, to enter into the interior of the tube.

b is a piercer, and c a knife or cutting edge, Fig. 2, or edges 0 0, Figs. 9 and 10, carried by a block, (I, to which block the piercer b is secured.

The block (I is shaped to fit the inside of the tube, and its knife edge or edgesccare located so that 011 the sliding of theblock forward and back ward through the tube said edges will pass by the edges f of the intermediate openings, a a, of the tube, and thus clip or sever the tip end of the cigar which may be placed therein, and its piercer is located so that inthe sliding of the block forward and backward through the tube it can be made to enter into and be withdrawn from the cigar-tip placed in the V conical-shaped open end B of the tube, and thereby to pierce the same in its length. For sliding the block, as above stated, ahandle or knob, O, is provided, which knob is attached to the block and projects to the outside of the tube through a slot, g, running lengthwise of 6 the tube; and for automatically withdrawing the piercer. after piercinga cigar a coiled spring, D, is arranged within the tube and confined between the block d and shoulder h at conical open end of the tube. The end of 7 the tube opposite to that of the conical end B is often left open, and thus escape for the clippings of tobacco is offered.

When the implement is not in use, if a spring, D, is used, the piercer is kept within the tube and the side openings, a, closed by the knifeblock, and the implement can then be carried with safety in the pocket; and obviously the spring is of utility in that respect, as also inthe respect that it renders the movement of the piercer and knife in one direction automatic; but yet it is not intended to limit the invention thereto.

The changes in form are obvious on inspection of the drawings. Again, with two or more side openings,by giving each a different size, the im- ,plement is adapted to varying sizes of cigar tips.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 5 the conical opening B is formed in a cap ,E, securely attached to the end Z of the tube in any suitable manner, and in Figs. 6 and 8 the conical opening is made in tube, in lieu of being conical shape; and it is not intended to limit the invention to a conical-shaped opening, although it is preferable to have the opening of a conical shape.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An implement for clipping and piercing cigars at their tip ends, composed of atube, A, having an open end and opening or openings a, in combination with a piereer, b, and asev-. ering edge or edges, 0, arranged to slide forward and backward within said tube, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. An implement for clipping and piercing cigars at their tip ends, composed of atube, A, having an open end, B, and opening or openings a, in combination with a piereer, b, anda severing edge or edges, 0, arranged to slide forward and backward within said tube, and a spring, D, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. An implement for clipping and piercing cigars at their tip ends, composed of a tube, A,

having conical-shaped openend B and opening or openings a, in combination with a piereer, b, and a severing edge or'edges, 0, arranged to slide forward and backward within said tube, described.

4:. An implement for clipping and piercing cigars at their tip ends, composed of a tube, A, having conical-shaped open end B and opening 7 or openings a, in combination with a piereer, b, and a severing edge or edges, 0, arranged to slide forward and backward within said tube, and a spring, D, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANDREW J. PEAVEY.

Vitnesses:

EDWIN BRowN, V. S. BELLows.

substantially as and for the purpose I 

